Biographies & Memoirs, Baseball 

In a series of vignettes and anecdotes that are touching and funny and genuine is a portrait of the Mick that captures the two sides of him - the hero who was human, and the icon with a touch of Peck's bad boy. Here is mantle confronting his drinking problem, a quarter century after his retirement from baseball, stunned that his four sons have become his drinking buddies. Here is Mantle, bravely cracking jokes in a Dallas hospital after the controversy over the 11th hour liver transplant, and learning that the surgery was in vain and that Cancer had overtaken his body. Mantle's career and his 18-month public battle with alcohol and Cancer was a national love story, a story that began with a new and hopeful life and ended a courageous, inspiring life. A must-read for any Mickey Mantle fan. Mantle made us proud on the field and a quarter of a century later off the field as well. - from Amzon